I've never heard of "rail shooter" being used to describe any shooter which you dont have direct control over the path of the character. Rather, I've only heard it used to describe a shooter where you can move the character to dodge but not explore around a world, AND the game isn't an overhead shooter (because people just call overhead shooters overhead shooters, never a subset of "rail shooters". So I've only seen the term used to describe games like "Starfox", and "Space Harrier".
- I've only heard it used with the opposite meaning. A "rail shooter" is when your movement is fixed to a virtual rail, with the possible exception of very limited movement such as in Time Crisis. 84.92.137.39 09:07, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
Starfox? I would call the pokemon game where you take pictures a rail game before I would call starfox. I normally think of a rail game as a turret style shooter. I guess (for lack of a better descriptor) GunCon games to just be lightgun games. I guess your on a rail and that make since but there the traditional limit on what you can do far exceeds that of a game where your the passenger in a car and shooting everything that tries to gun you down. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.148.115.85 (talk) 09:27, 24 November 2007 (UTC)